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by inigyou 19 days ago
Young people are drinking much less alcohol now. Some people call it a crisis. It's probably related to the reason they date less and have less sex and do less of all the other things you're not supposed to do but people did anyway, and that reason probably has something to do with social media taking their attention instead.
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We do not care where we get our dopamine hits. The most likely place is the easiest, and right now, for teens, it is social media.

I am afraid this is setting kids up for abusing drugs and alchohol in the future.

...Or, y'know...It could, just possibly...have something to do with the fact that no one has the money to engage in all of those things, especially young people.